<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 16, 2016, at 12:58 PM, Daniel Holth <<a href="mailto:dholth@gmail.com" class="">dholth@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="">On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 12:50 PM Ian Cordasco <<a href="mailto:graffatcolmingov@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">graffatcolmingov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So perhaps I'm missing something, but why are we talking about trying<br class="">
to shoehorn a legacy design into Wheel? Why wouldn't we leave<br class="">
bdist_egg alone and start trying to find a better way to replace it?<br class="">
We could avoid over-complicating Wheel and we could spend time<br class="">
polishing whatever we come up with.<br class="">
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<a href="https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig</a></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="line-height:1.5" class="">It is because wheel is almost identical to egg, but the name 'newegg' was already in use by a major online retailer. Possibly adding the one missing egg feature to wheel would save someone some time. Maybe you would want to give 'extracted wheel in its own directory' a different name, or no name, to avoid confusion.</span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Installing a wheel to a single directory is fine. It’s no longer a wheel at that point, it is an installed distribution.</div><div><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">—<br class="">Donald Stufft<br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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